Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Anna Lebovic
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
12cp or (3cp in HIST or MHIS or POL units)
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
The unit examines the history of the United States in the period between the Civil War and the end of the twentieth century. Topics explored will include segregation and civil rights, immigration, social reform movements, mass consumer culture, isolationism and internationalism.
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Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Weekly Quiz | 20% | weekly |
Preliminary Research Exercise | 20% | 16th September |
Research Essay | 40% | 28th October |
Takehome Exam | 20% | 17th of November |
Due: weekly
Weighting: 20%
Each week in class you will answer four multiple choice questions about the readings. You must get all four answers correct to get the marks for the quiz that week.
Due: 16th September
Weighting: 20%
The first piece of written assessment in the course is a 1000 word preliminary research exercise. See instructions on course iLearn for details.
Due: 28th October
Weighting: 40%
The major assessment in this course is a 2500 word research essay. See instructions on the course iLearn for details.
Due: 17th of November
Weighting: 20%
The final assessment task will be a 1500 word take-home exam, distributed in the final lecture on the 10th of November and via the course iLearn on the 17th of November and which you will have a week to complete.
Internal students will be expected to attend two lectures and one tutorial a week.
External students are expected to listen to two lectures through Echo 360, and engage in one forum discussion through iLearn.
I will not keep track of attendance, your participation grade will be earnt through the weekly quiz.
Readings will be made available through iLearn.
Week 1: Sectionalism or Exceptionalism? |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 2: Race and Reconstruction |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 3: Native Americans and the Frontier |
Readings:
· Richard White, “Frederick Jackson Turner and Buffalo Bill”, in The Frontier in American Culture (1994), pp. 7-67.
Tute Questions:
Week 4: Immigrants: Integration or Assimilation? |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 5: Representing America in the New Deal |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 6: Expanding Horizons: American Men in World War Two |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 7: Red Scares and Family Values |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 8: The Civil Rights Movement |
READ EITHER:
OR:
Tute Questions (to be answered in debate):
Week 9: The Radical 1960s |
Readings:
o The Black Panther Platform: “What We Want, What We Believe” (1966), pp. 131-134.
o Frances Beal, “Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female” (1969), pp. 442-445.
o Betty Friedan, “The Problem That Has No Name” (1963), pp. 393-398.
o Pat Mainardi, “The Politics of housework” (1969), pp. 417-420.
o Gloria Steinem, What Would It Be Like If Women Win (1970), p. 399-404.
o Radicalesbians, “The Woman-Identified Woman”, pp. 434-438.
o SDS, “The Port Huron Statement” (1962), pp. 50-61.
o Guy Strait, “What is a Hipie?” (1967), pp. 269-270.
o Helen Swick Perry, “The Human Be-in” (1967), pp. 271-273.
o “Yippie Manifesto” (1968), pp. 278-280.
o Jerry Rubin, “Do It!” (1970), pp. 280-283.
o SDS, “SDS Call for a March on Washington” (1965), pp. 191-192.
o SNCC, “SNCC POosition paper on Vietnam”, pp. 192-194.
o Martin Luther King, Jr. “Declaration of Independence from the War on Vietnam” (1967), pp. 194-199.
o John Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against The War (1971), pp. 219-222
Tute Questions:
Week 10: Reading Week - NO TUTORIAL THIS WEEK
Week 11: A Conservative Backlash? |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 12: History Wars, Culture Wars |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
Week 13: Reflections and Wrapup |
Readings:
Tute Questions:
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Academic Honesty Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html
New Assessment Policy in effect from Session 2 2016 http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/assessment/policy_2016.html. For more information visit http://students.mq.edu.au/events/2016/07/19/new_assessment_policy_in_place_from_session_2/
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